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The GOP’s 2016 quandary: Why no women candidates?

Dana Perino — who, under George W. Bush, served as the first female White House press secretary to a Republican president — predicted that Democrats would try to make an issue of the absence of a Republican woman in the presidential mix.

But Perino also singled out Martinez, Haley and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin as leaders who have the potential to reach the national stage.

“I think it’s not entirely a bad thing for some of the women who could have great futures in higher office to continue to focus and do a really good job in their states,” she said. “So I don’t think any woman is going to magically appear in 2016 on the Republican ticket, but I do think they’re being smart in setting up some ways to have a platform to run on.”

As the 2008 campaign demonstrated, the placement of a woman on the Republican ticket does not necessarily mean that more female votes will follow.

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The media is always ready with a “why don’t the Republicans have an X?” story, where X is equal to any possible subset of humanity they can come up with. You’ll never see an equivalent story for the Democrats.

As soon as there’s a woman (and there likely will be), it’ll magically turn into a specific race. Then it’ll be a religion. Then a sexual orientation. It’s not going to stop.

They don’t bring up the elephant in the room, Palin, because right now she is playing What cards she has very close to her vest. I don’t think she talks to Conroy likes she used to, either, possibly because he’s too closely watched by her enemies. I don’t think she prefers talking to Tony Lee and the Breitbart crowd to get her message out.

I hate hate hate this stupid subject! And I’m a woman. Why are we always having to talk about sex and race when discussing our candidates? I couldn’t care less. Could we please discuss experience, policy ideas, or plans to get our country back on track???

Slightly OT, but- did I miss the HotAir primary survey for July? Did it leave Palin out again, but include Condi Rice? Maybe Perino should read those posts, and gain hope that Ms. Rice (who I think has some positive attributes but don’t think will run, FWIW) will run…

When the ‘good’ women in politics (ie; not infanticide and tyranny-promoting tramps) top out at Sarah Palin (“tee hee, let’s impeach Obama”) and the BAD ones start at singing “Hail Satan” and go DOWNHILL from there…

Gee, it’s almost like there are certain assigned roles for each gender and taking a sledgehammer to them is a bad idea??? Naw, that’s silly superstitious right-wing hate talk.

First off, it is way too early to think about 2016. Second, no woman wants to be raped metaphorically on the national stage by the media. Look at what happened to Sarah Palin. 99.9% of what happened to her is not her fault. The 0.1% that is her fault was listening to RINO advisers.

Even if the Republicans put up Mother Theresa the Dems and their on camera colleagues will give her the Palin treatment and the MSM would make sure the soundbites made into every American home.

antipc on July 25, 2014 at 10:31 PM

And GOP RINO’s like Perino will sit by and do nothing. Palin needs to run. But she will need to run against the Pravda press and the GOP. They both need to be publicly confronted and defeated. Hillary or Warren are both jokes. Palin scares everybody in DC because when she talks about shrinking the government she actually means it.